Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-05-28
NEWS NOTES


American Tube and Iron company a
youngstown, Ohio, have been legally 70
strained from entering upon the company!
grounds or IN any way interfering with IT
business.
Bdsinsss on the leading European bourse.
is dull, with quotations GENERALLY steady anC
arm. On the London stock exchange
American railway securities showed a de
cided increase in strength, in anticipation
Of an approaching DO IN.
Anind1ctment has been returned in LeipsiG
against the persons arrested for connection
with the case IN which the French commits
saFy, Schnaebeles, was implicated. The in
I diotment is q Voluminous document, and Il
and il said to be directed as much against
| France as against the prison erss
I LIE Bzzelia McWha. aged 40, and her
/ daughter, Mrs. Eliza Baker aged 40, were
robbed and murdered at their home II
1t is now denied that Mr.. Blaine viii
/ spend the summer in Europe, or that he will
60 to Europe at all. On the contrary, it L
| said that he will put in the season at Ban
! HarbOr laying out plans for nezt year, and
/ keeping one eye on John Sherman and the
/ other on the atLabor vote" IT, by fall, be
concludes that he can not be elected presi-
dent he, viii, If Is whispered, go back to the
| programme Is correctly stated or not, it Il
|. pretty safe 70 predict that he viii not allow
| the public to lose sight of him during the
next few months.
The members of the railway 5al associa-
/ ton of Pennsylvania and Ohio have decided
to sell to Cleveland middlemen and TO cut
/ prices and undersell contracts
| The "Nickel-Plate" railroad was sold IN
| der foreclosure at Cleveland, to committee
| representing the bondholdeIs for 81 ,OUO, 900.
| The Vanderbilt interest viii continue to con-
/ troll the road.
EE-United States Senator Charles E.
! Stuart has died at Kalamazoo, Michigan, at
/ the age Of az.
The Bloomington illinois, street railway
/ system has been brought by Pennsylvania
capitalists, and will be largely extended.
The movement to have silver dealt in on
the hoor Of the New York stock exchange
promises to be successful
At a meeting of the builders and traders
e1change5 IN Chicago a declaration Of
principles was adopted, in which the mem
bers announced that they reserved to them
selves the right to hire whom they saw fit,
and they would hire no one who refused to
subscribe to that right. The platform was
subsequently submitted to a meeting of the
master masons for their concurrence. Sever
Al OF those present objected on the ground
that they did not propose to ask their en-
plCyes to subscribe to any such pledge. The
Builders and Traders association received
kilograms OF sympathy and ENCOURAGEMENT
from their brethren in Cincinnati and BOs-
ton.
The will of the late Washington O. De
PAW, Of New Albany, Ind, deVises about
S5yOUU 100 to his family, and the remainder
of the estate estimated at $4,000, 600, to
benevolent and educational objects, includ-
ing S25O25OOO to De PAW university.
The bill appropriating s., 500 to Preston,
Kean & Co., Of Chicago, for expenses in
bringing the defaulter Ker from South
America, was killed in the Illinois house.
Benjamin f. Horn, a stave manufacturer
Of Fast ST. Louis, has failed, with debts Of
S55.743 and assets Of $93, 694.
Henry Georges New York 'Iabor party''
Is actively preparing for the fail campaign.
Mr.. George denies that there is or Will be
any deal with Mr.. Blaine, who, ne says re-
presents all that he 'fhas been fighting for
years" Mr.. George thinks there will be a
labor candidate for the presidency ia 1888.
The great lockout in the Haverhin, Massa-
ehusetts, shoe factories has ended in victory
for the employees.
actress has fought duel with M. Lacour,
Paris journalist, who had reflected upon the
latter, 3 reputation. The editor was slightly
wounded.
There is talk of rate-cutting by tbs
Wabash from Chicago to Missouri points,
ana general war IN passenger business is
threatened.
A review THE business Of representative
railroads since the interstate commerce went
INTO eject shows material gain in both net
and gross revenues, the latter amounting TO
10 and the former to 25.S Fer cent.
Lord Salisbury refuses to recOgaizs the
French prOteCtOrate in MADAGASCAR until he
has had time for further consideration.
The Pennsylvania legislature has adjourn
ed sine die. Among the bills passed was
one ITO regulate the employment of labor
and abolish the system of black listing en-
plOyes."
The strikes in Belgium are spreading.
L. HrHhnH N
district have struck, and troops are being
sent to the disturbed region.
Tbs Austrian and German emperors are
said to have given their consent TO the
accession OF Prince Luitpold 10 The Bavarian
throne. The diet Of Bavaria has been dis
solved and new diet will be chosen June
The Pennsylvania legislature has passed a
congressional reapportiOnment bill, which
ls-suppOsed to give the republicans nineteen
districts ''sure" and the democrats seven,
leaving two debatab4e. Sam Randall's dis
triot 10, Of course not disturbed.
Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager
has decided that there are no public lands of
the United States In Chicago subject to entry
under general laws. The ruling was made
upon the application of Lester A. Bartlett
TO locate with Girard scrip lands on the lake
'front.' now occupied by the Illinois Central
tracks and buildings.
Mai u I. L Rathbone, of California, Who
has been appointed consul general at Paris,
Is ''West Pointer" and served for several
years on General SehOheld's staff.
ia es McCabe was to have been hanged
at Honeadaies Pennsylvania, for murder. The
event 10 likely to be postponed, Ny. McCebe
having made a sudden exit from the county
jail without leaving his prospective address
behind.
There is every prospect of a through de-
moralization in western railway rates soon.
The Burlington and Northern, which has
little local business, threatens to cut the
through rate, ST. Paul to Chicago, and the
Milwaukee and st. Paul will retaliats by
making cut on the Omaha cuisines. In
that event general war would ensue.
Coffee continues to advance rapidly, owing
to the short supplies in the markets of the
world. Fancy Rio has been raised to %
cents pound and the best Mandahling to
. cents.
The viii of the late Monsignor Quinn, OF
New York. makes liberal requests to various
Roman Catholic charities.
The backbone of the strike OF street rail-
way employees at Indianapolis has been
broken, and most Of the cars are now rum
ing
The Virginia senate has passed a joint
resolution reafhrminR the determination Of
the state 20 stand BY the Riddlsberger law,
aud calling on the people to pay their taxes
in money ana not in coupon. It would sp-
pear from this that the repudiabOrs are still
ION top IN Virginia politics.
R. G.. DIM q Co., in their weekly trade
review, take generally favorable view Of the
situation. The most important effects of
the interstate commerce act noted are the
decline of ira 70 Of larger oentsrs of dis
tTibuLiOn and Manufacture and increase
Of distribution at smaller towns, with upris-
ing Of new manufacturing works ct many
localities" Money is reported In abundant
supply every where except at Chicago and
New York Real estate speculation con
tinuss active at the west and south. The